EdTech Europe 2015 [Track 1]: [Digital Assess], ([Dan Sandhu], [CEO])

ED TECH 2.0Enabling Vocational And Professional

Skills

DAN SANDHU

Classroom 1900 Classroom 2015

USUAL COMPARISON

VOCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL

We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we’re well versed in

the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with

the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information.

KNOWLEDGE vs LEARNING

- Malcolm Gladwell

We have come to confuse information with understanding.

KNOWLEDGE

COLLABORATIVE SKILLS

CREATIVITY

PROBLEM SOLVING

KNOWLEDGE ALONE IS NOT SUFFICENT“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form”

Vladimir Nabokov

Or .. how to get people to ask good questions

Was needed so was sought

Is needed and is sought

It's about understanding the tools they have got available and how to utilise them.

When we are asking a question where we know there's access to the internet, we could ask a different question - it's

about the interpretation, the discussion.

Its more.

Mark Dawe, OCR, Cambridge Assessment

COST OF COMPLACENCY

THE TIME IS RIGHT

£2.8TRILLION

Education spend 2014

84%INCREASE

In education

spend 2014

Stagnant growth in standards

E-LEARNING

Expenditure to grow at 23.0% p.a. to £166bn by 2017

INVESTMENT

80% attrition in Massive Open Online

Courses (MOOCs)

• Employers want the means of ensuring their workforce has the right skill set

• Institutions need to more reliably assess creative and collaboration skills

• Universities need to provide better learner experience

• MOOC’s need to improve learner engagement and therefore retention

• Governments need evidence they are getting value for their educational spend

PERFECT STORM

THE MODERN LEARNER

Empowered, Accessible Work Related Learning

of workforce

work remotely

of global workforce is

mobile

30% 37%

50-60% viaonline

courses

70% viasearch engine

ON-DEMAND

UNTETHERED COLLABORATIVE EMPOWERED

80%

of workforce learning

happens on the job

55%at Google

of training delivered by 2,000+

peer learners

2 ½ to 5Half life

(in years) of many

professional skills

62%

of IT professionals have paid for training themselves

THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS CHANGING

THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS CHANGING

THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS CHANGING

SCALABLE DEVICE

AGNOSTIC PRODUCTS

ACADEMICALLY VALIDATED & OPERATIONAL

CURRICULUM AGNOSTIC

COUNTRY AGNOSTIC

VOCATIONALLY FOCUSED

WHAT ED TECH TOOLS ARE NEEDED TO ENABLE VOCATIONAL &

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

A Brief Introduction

LEARNING PRODUCT SUITE

CAPTURE

Capture digital evidence of

student knowledge,

capability and progress

ANNOTATE

Annotate any digital file and

reference rubric

COLLABORATE

Peer to peer assessment

MEASURE

Game-changing alternative to

marking that is reliable for

measuring a wide-range

of learner work

MANAGE

E-portfolio to support

assessment for learning

Uncomplicated technology designed for learners to excel.Our product has been used by some of the world’s most trusted education brands

to provide more stimulating, blended learning activities and a deeper understanding of learners’ acquisition of skills.

SOCIAL LEARNING

TEAM UPENGAGE

ATTAIN

Capture and present evidence in a storyboard-style digital portfolio using in-built digital features or learners’ own mobile

devices.

Market leaders of online assessment products for awarding bodies, English language training and educational institutions.

OUR CLIENTS

Digital Assess is changing learning for the better and making evidence basedassessment more reliable, easier to validate,

more authentic and simpler to manage.

Gain A Deeper Insight

DAN SANDHUDAN.SANDHU@DIGITALASSESS.COM

THANK YOU